Tehelka

India: Custodial torture is wide spread – Four undertrials die in police custody every day

New Delhi, India (May 25, 2013): In it's recent issue "Tehelka", an investigative weekly, has noted that: "[f]our undertrials die in police custody every day in India — a disturbing number for one of the oldest judicial systems in the world. Between 2001 and 2010 the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) registered 14,231 custodial deaths.